With the membership approaching 100k, and with the structure of the organization being democratic and up for revision given a strong enough push from the internal caucuses, why are there still unaffiliated american socialists?
 I think the predominate view on this website is that DSA is a monolithic organization that is simply full of radlibs and social democrats or democratic socialists, however the richness of the caucuses and the amount of local marxist caucuses which are attempting to reform the DSA is in my opinion largely ignored here.
 The Democratic Socialists of America is *our* organization as socialists of america and if you critique it without affiliating yourself and without acting to change it, than what are you truly doing? It is definitely one of the twelve types of liberalism for you criticize in private but not to the collective itself. Problems you have with the DSA from your critical perspective should be brought up every month at your local general meeting. Critique from outside the organization, as if you were not a socialist, is not going to affect change. 

tl;dr: as a chapo who didn’t join DSA for years bc of the stigma here calling them radlibs, i ask of you, why are you seriously not in the DSA. for if you don’t like it, then join and act in the oppositional caucuses; and if you do like it but just haven’t joined, then come on comrade follow suit.

edit: This struggle session has been quite bountiful I will say. We have learned that there are three instances in the DSA's constitution that allow for (1) the expulsion of members that are under the discipline of democratic-centralist organizations (2) local charters will be revoked if the majority of members become under the discipline of democratic-centralism and that (3) local youth charters will be revoked if majority of members become. dem-cent.

  • Elohim [comrade/them]
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    No they are not dem cent

    Jacobin magazine’s owner and all of the leadership of the DSA are all in the tank with NED funding and imperialism. All of them. Why are you trying to salvage this piece of shit that’s just as bad and just as anti-communist as the Democratic Party?

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        It’s naive radlibs and social chauvinists like you that fill /r/PCM and leftoid subreddits. Stop projecting your cringe into others

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        Leaders: all literally take NED funding and push pro-American lines

        You: wow way to connect dots that aren’t there you loony lefty!!

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          this is deranged lol which leaders are you referring to? the npc? you literally havent even read the entire article you linked have you?